Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo measuring 8 x 5½ inches. The original caption is separate from the photograph. This powerful news image shows Franz Zupfer comforting his wife, Lela, after both suffered second-degree burns when they were rescued by firefighters from the gutted upper floor of a hotel in Oakland, California, on August 15, 1947. The couple was hospitalized following the dramatic rescue, with reports describing their condition as fair. A compelling human-interest and disaster photograph from the postwar era. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
